Blu-Ray Review: Deaf Crocodile’s Ilya Muromets
The fine folks at Deaf Crocodile have done it again bringing to Blu-Ray a vital piece of World Genre CinemaContinue Reading
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The fine folks at Deaf Crocodile have done it again bringing to Blu-Ray a vital piece of World Genre CinemaContinue Reading
Based on the memoirs of the lead character, Firebird is a story of love and longing in, of all places, a SovietContinue Reading
Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner Compartment No 6 gets a showing at Manchester Film Festival. A snowy journey with real warmth.Continue Reading
A success at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Brighton 4th is a tender, sad portrait of the illusion of immigration and theContinue Reading
The Cold War gets hot with Wayne and Leigh in Jet Pilot the Technicolor Action Romantic by Joseph Von Sternberg and HowardContinue Reading
Taxi driver Viktor Toroptsev is an unlikely YouTube sensation, but this documentary about a man determined to change things inContinue Reading
This surreal, fever-dream of a story set in post-Soviet Russia comes from controversial film and theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov, whoContinue Reading
Star-crossed lovers fail to recognise each other as the result of a strange spell, and what follows is a poemContinue Reading
Living up to its name Sweetie You Won’t Believe It is a bold dark comedy out of Russia about three guys onContinue Reading
Misha, the opening film of Manchester Film Festival (MANIFF) 2021 is interesting and raises more questions than it answers. ButContinue Reading